Blockchain Poetics

Authors: Rob Myers

First 100 words: Bitcoin and the blockchain technology that originated with it inspire high political passions. For the libertarians and anarcho-capitalists who wrote and initially promoted this technology, it is a model of an ideal social order. For the socialists and critical theorists who have been wrong-footed by its popularity it is literal fascism in technological form. Neither group is happy with the blockchain's recuperation by global financial capital as the new…